Sean J. Birch

Graduated from Carnegie Mellon University’s top ranked Statistics and Economics programs with University and College Honors, while simultaneously performing research culminating in two senior thesis projects. In addition, I concurrently completed internship and industry experience tailored to a career in data analytics where I made substantial contributions and gained in-depth experience with the entire data life-cycle.

This plot shows a border precinct matching algorithm for Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. The algorithm is generalized to run on any county.

This scatterplot shows a Principle Component Analysis on Supreme Court (SCOTUS) cases. When shifting from the 2022 to the 2023 Term, the horizontal axis becomes much more important and the court shifts from 3 clusters to 2.

This graph pairs Supreme Court (SCOTUS) justices to show how often they voted together for the 2022 and 2023 Terms.

This map shows all wind farms in the contiguous United States along with their custom 3-dimensional turbine density metrics, evaluating turbine wind interference.

This plot shows the decrease in debt service payments as a percent of disposable personal income from 2001 to 2020 as a factor of unemployment.

Visualization Honors

Statistical Graphics Visualization Team Competition 1st place award: 20 statistics professionals judging 26 teams.

Economics and Data Science Individual Visualization Challenge awarded 1st place of 67 entries: score of 98/100.